Notes

Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volume 2
[p.11]: "Isaac Allerton, Jr., went to Virginia, and provided
Mayflower descent to lots of folks in that state, including
President Zachary Taylor. Since Isaac, junior, married William
Brewster's daughter Fear (another of those odd Puritan names),
you get two Mayflower descents for the price of one."

Westmoreland County, Virginia Wills, 1654-1800: Allerton, Isaac,
25 October 1702; 30 December 1702. 1050 acres and 600 acres to
dau. Sarah Lee; grandson Allerton Newton land in Stafford; £10
to church of Cople Parish; dau. Elizabeth Starr who lives in New
England 600 acres on southside Rappahannock River; my dau.
Travers had her dowry at marriage; her three daus. Elizabeth,
Rebecca and Winifred Travers 1,000 lbs. tobacco each; son
Willoughby Allerton exr. and residue of estate.

ISAAC, b. Plymouth say 1630; Harvard 1650 [Sibley 1:253-56]; m.
(1) about 1652 Elizabeth _____ [NEHGR 124:83-84 argues that she
was a daughter of Joanna Swinnerton, third wife of Isaac's
father]; m. (2) Virginia about 1663 Elizabeth (Willoughby)
(Overzee) Colclough, dau. of Capt. Thomas Willoughby and widow
of Simon Overzee and George Colclough [Wakefield, Isaac Allerton
of the Mayflower... (Plymouth 1990) 4-5]; all modern authorities
agree that the Isaac Allerton born at New Haven in 1655, son of
this Isaac Allerton by his first wife, died without issue, and
some other origin must be found for the Allertons who appear in
New Haven late in the seventeenth century [MQ 45:23; MD 42:117].

Isaac Allerton son of Isaac Allerton, one of the Puritan leaders
of the "Mayflower" expedition, and his wife Fear, daughter of
William Brewster, was born in Plymouth, Mass., in 1630, and
graduated at Harvard College in 1650. He is said to have been,
for a time, associated with his father in the business of
trading between Plymouth, New Haven and New Amsterdam, but it is
possible that during most of the time between his graduation and
his father's death, in 1659, he was his representative in
Virginia. As early as Feb. 6, 1650, there was recorded a dispute
between the Indians and a Mr. Allerton, regarding a plantation
which the latter had cleared, which reached the governor and
council. It is believed that this refers to the elder Isaac
Allerton, but it may be that immediately after leaving college
the son established a plantation in Virginia. He appears to have
made his first permanent residence in Virginia about 1660, and
soon became a man of prominence. In 1663 he was sworn a justice
of Northumberland. In 1675, with the rank of major, he was
second in command to Col. John Washington, of the Virginia
troops sent against the Indians. In the campaign which followed
they allied themselves with the Maryland forces at the latter's
invitation in the siege of an Indian fort, but before the
opening of hostilities a horrible murder was committed by the
Marylanders in the shooting of five Indian chiefs who had come
to negotiate peace. This was done against the earnest opposition
of Washington and Allerton, but caused such indignation on the
part of the Virginia authorities that an investigation of their
conduct was ordered, which, however, cleared them of all
responsibility for the crime. Allerton was burgess for
Westmoreland in 1676-77, and for Northumberland for a number of
years between 1668 and 1677. In 1680 and 1688 he was escheator
of Westmoreland with the rank of colonel, and prior to Sept. 25,
1683, he was appointed to the council. His occupation of the
position at this time seems to have been only temporary, as in
1686-87 Secretary Spencer, acting governor, wrote, that he had
called Col. Isaac Allerton to the council in Col. Ludwell's
place. A little later King James wrote that Col. Allerton was to
be sworn as a member of the council in Col. Ludwell's place, the
royal favor being accounted for on the statement that Allerton
was either a Catholic or inclined to that faith. He was present
at sessions of the council regularly until 1691, when he
refused, as did Armistead and Lee, to take the oath of
allegiance to the new sovereigns, William and Mary. He was
probably not formally dropped until 1693, when the governor
wrote that Col. Allerton, of the council, was very old and had
retired. His death occurred sometime in 1702.

"Isaac
The Allerton House Allerton(2) married Elizabeth (...) in New
Haven in 1652/3. They had two children, Elizabeth (1653-1740)
and Isaac(3) (1655-?). When Issac's(2) wife Elizabeth died circa
1660, he moved his family to Northumberland County, in
Virginia's Northern Neck. Initially he settled in Wicomico at
the far eastern end of the county on land adjacent to the
Chesapeake Bay and in the vicinity of the plantation of Richard
Lee II.

Circa 1663, Issac(2) married the twice-widowed Elizabeth
(Overzee) Colclough. They had three children: Willoughby (b. ca
1664), Frances (b. ca 1668), and Sarah (1670-1731). As a tobacco
planter-merchant Isaac(2) probably constructed a wharf and
warehouse (as his father had done in New Amsterdam) since
financial success required both growing and transporting
tobacco. Whether Isaac bought land from Richard Lee II or
acquired it over time is not known. Alternatively, he may have
acquired land from his marriage to Elizabeth, who would have
acquired it from her previous marriages or from her wealthy
parents.
Robert E. LeeIn any event, Issac's(2) family became wealthy,
with indentured servants, owned a 2150-acre plantation on the
south side of the Rappahannock River and entered the influential
class of planter-merchants that included the Washington and Lee
families.

In 1663 Isaac(2) was a justice of Northumberland County. In 1667
he was a member of the "Committee of the Association of
Northumberland, Westmoreland and Stafford Counties." He became a
member of the Virginia militia and ultimately rose to the rank
of colonel. As a major in 1667, he served under Colonel John
Washington, great-grandfather of our first president George, in
order to subdue Susquehannock and Doeg Indians, who were raiding
settlements. Isaac(2) served as justice of the peace and member
of the House of Burgesses in 1676-77. During Bacon's rebellion
Isaac was a member of the House of Burgesses but remained loyal
to the governor. Isaac's family developed a close relationship
with the family of Richard Lee II (1634-1713/14). Both Isaac(2)
and Richard Lee II were senior officers in the Virginia militia
and both served as members of the General Court of Virginia.
Records of the region indicate that Isaac Allerton(2) and
Richard Lee II participated in commerce, governmental affairs
and social activities. Richard Lee II had a younger brother,
Hancock (1652-1709), who married Isaac's daughter, Sarah
Allerton (1670-1731), following the death of Hancock's wife. In
1691 Isaac Allerton, Richard Lee II and John Armistead refused
to take the oath recognizing William and Mary as England's
rightful rulers."
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